Achilles

Family: Greek · Role: leader · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

The Aegimius recounts that Thetis threw the children she had with Peleus into a cauldron to test where they were mortal; after many had perished, Peleus prevented her from throwing Achilles in. The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae describes Achilles and Patroclus as first cousins. In The Cypria, Achilles marries Deidameia at Scyros, then kills Cycnus son of Poseidon at Ilium and drives the Trojans back.

In The Aethiopis, Achilles kills Penthesileia and Memnon in battle, before Paris and Apollo kill him. Thetis takes her son from the pyre and carries him to the White Island. In The Little Iliad, Odysseus wins Achilles’ arms, and Achilles’ son Neoptolemus leads Hector’s wife to the ships.

Relationship record

Life events

• Peleus prevented Thetis from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.(Aegimius)
  • With: Thetis Peleus
  • “And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.”
• Achilles marries Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes.(The Cypria · Part 1 · 📍 Scyros)
  • With: Deidameia
  • “Achilles first puts in at Scyros and married Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes”
• Achilles kills Cycnus and drives the Trojans back.(The Cypria · Part 1 · 📍 Ilium)
  • With: Cycnus son of Poseidon
  • “Achilles then kills Cycnus, the son of Poseidon, and drives the Trojans back.”
• Achilles kills Penthesileia, and the Trojans bury her.(The Aethiopis)
  • With: Penthesileia
  • “is killed by Achilles and buried by the Trojans.”
• Achilles kills Memnon in battle.(The Aethiopis)
  • With: Memnon
  • “Memnon by Achilles.”
• Paris and Apollo kill Achilles.(The Aethiopis)
  • “is killed by Paris and Apollo.”
• Thetis takes Achilles from the pyre and transports him to the White Island.(The Aethiopis · 📍 the White Island)
  • With: Thetis
  • “while Thetis, arriving with the Muses and her sisters, bewails her son, whom she afterwards catches away from the pyre and transports to the White Island.”
• The arms of Achilles are adjudged, and Odysseus gains them.(The Little Iliad)
  • “The adjudging of the arms of Achilles takes place, and Odysseus, by the contriving of Athena, gains them.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• cousins with Patroclus “so that in that case they were first cousins.”

Aegimius

• parent: Thetis “Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn where they were mortal.... ....And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.”
• parent: Peleus “Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn where they were mortal.... ....And that after many had perished Peleus was annoyed, and prevented her from throwing Achilles into the cauldron.”

The Cypria · Part 1

• married with Deidameia “Achilles first puts in at Scyros and married Deidameia, the daughter of Lycomedes”

The Aethiopis

• parent: Thetis “The Achaeans then bury Antilochus and lay out the body of Achilles, while Thetis, arriving with the Muses and her sisters, bewails her son, whom she afterwards catches away from the pyre and transports to the White Island.”

The Little Iliad

• parent: Peleus “The storm carried Achilles the son of Peleus to Scyros, and he came into an uneasy harbour there in that same night.”
• child: Neoptolemus “Then the bright son of bold Achilles led the wife of Hector to the hollow ships”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.